Social Network Analysis of Academic Studies on Gifted People

Abstract

In this study, 1035 articles on giftedness published between the years of 1956-2016 and indexed in WoS were analyzed in terms of their bibliometric qualities and the social network structure was revealed by means of using CiteSpace 4.0 program in order to present the historical process and the general structure of the field of giftedness and thus help the field to be viewed from above with a bird’s eye. As a result of this research; the distribution of the number of publication and citation of articles on giftedness within the field of education according to years, countries, university/institute labels, and research fields. Moreover, word and keyword network structure, cited journal network structure, co-cited reference network structure and co-cited author citation network structure belonging to these publications were revealed. It is thought that researchers to start a new study will make use of the results of this study so as to get as much information as possible about the field of giftedness.